Top 100 Quotes About Costs
#1. I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
Brooke Burke
#2. It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and we can sell this to you over and over and over again. And that's what rap is.
Malik Yusef
#3. All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
N. Murray Edwards
#4. Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.
Sandra Postel
#5. Just as tobacco companies have been obliged to pay the costs of helping people to quit smoking, and BP has had to pay for much of the cleanup of its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it is high time for the industry to at least split the bill for the climate crisis.
Naomi Klein
#6. It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.
H.L. Mencken
#7. Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.
David Horowitz
#8. The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.
Glenn Greenwald
#9. It's simple, Grey. I'm a spoiled brat. I've always gotten what I want. Always. And I want you all to myself. I don't want you working there anymore, and I knew you'd fight me on it, so I took the fight away from you. I don't care how much it costs, I have to have you all to myself.
Jasinda Wilder
#10. A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.
Noam Chomsky
#11. Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
Barry Boehm
#12. Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs.
Lynn Jurich
#13. The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.
Kevin Rudd
#14. Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
Martha Plimpton
#15. I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.
Brett Hull
#17. My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
John Burns
#18. Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.
Bill Dedman
#19. Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
Paul Hawken
#21. We will not be demanding service in both French and English at the gas pumps where we fill our cars for twenty percent less than it costs us in Canada. We don't even want to make Americans aware that beer should not have the taste and alcohol content of bottled water.
Gordon Kirkland
#22. I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.
Michael McClung
#23. She wanted to be herself at all costs.
Kiera Cass
#24. Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.
Jim Gerlach
#25. When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.
Bill Gates
#26. Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.
Oswald Chambers
#27. Bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health.
Susan Cain
#28. Temple of the Rat King. Ark of the Soot God. Sphincter of Hades. Yes, King's Cross Station, where, according to Knuckle Sandwich, a blow job costs only five quid - any of the furthest-left three cubicles in the men's lavvy downstairs, twenty-four hours a day.
David Mitchell
#29. Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.
Sophie Kinsella
#31. The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.
Tommy Wiseau
#32. A recent Chicago study, for example, has shown that it costs $60,000 to hook up a new house in an outer suburb to the utility infrastructure as against $5,000 for the same house in an existing suburb. "Who foots the bill? Taxpayers in the established suburbs."72
Mike Davis
#33. We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether you make a little bit or lose a little bit.. as you well know, because you lose a ton on every copy of The Washington Post (newspaper).
Steve Case
#34. It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
J.C. Ryle
#35. Clearly in the eyes of the consumer; the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.
Richard Branson
#36. Their study found that the number of prescriptions required per resident fell to half that of the control nursing home. Psychotropic drugs for agitation, like Haldol, decreased in particular. The total drug costs fell to just 38 percent of the comparison facility. Deaths fell 15 percent.
Atul Gawande
#37. Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
George Soros
#38. What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?
Richard Stearns
#39. Pay-for-performance will only raise costs if providers get higher pay for process compliance but do not have to compete on results.
Michael E. Porter
#40. Mental Health is dedication to reality at all costs.
M. Scott Peck
#41. Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce Meyer
#42. We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.
Dolly Parton
#43. Remember the economy of the Kingdom is simple. Every time we come to cross a new threshold, it costs us everything we now have. Every new step may cost us all the reputation & security we've accumulated up to that point. It costs us our life..
John Wimber
#44. The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. Edwards Deming
#45. It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.
William J. Brennan
#46. I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
Abraham Verghese
#47. Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.
Ingvar Kamprad
#48. Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
Joe Baca
#49. It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. A gift is something you can hold in your hand and say, "Look, he was thinking of me," or, "She remembered me." You must be thinking of someone to give him a gift. The gift itself is a symbol of that thought. It doesn't matter whether it costs money.
Gary Chapman
#51. When it comes to innovation, a company's legacy beliefs are a much bigger liability than its legacy costs. - Gary Hamel
Jackie Fenn
#53. When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Rick Perlstein
#54. As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.
Ron Jaworski
#56. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.
Kate Atkinson
#57. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it's a cross."13
Terryl L. Givens
#58. Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.
Robert Gilpin
#59. It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
Cameron Mackintosh
#60. Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.
Jan C. Ting
#61. As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, ' ... requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'
Orrin Hatch
#62. I love unique things that not everyone has. I believe its all about how you wear an outfit, not how much it costs or where it's from. Elegance is the key.
Sasha Jackson
#63. how do you identify wasteful transaction costs or coordination activities? I believe that you ask yourself, "If this activity is truly value-adding, would we do more of it?" When
David J. Anderson
#64. Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
Abraham Lincoln
#66. You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#67. If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.
Charles Bradlaugh
#68. It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.
Bernie Sanders
#69. The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#70. I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.
Tom Cole
#71. One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
Bruno Schulz
#72. All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
Jamie Dimon
#73. On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.
David Benatar
#74. I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
Mario Andretti
#75. What seems like weakness to a survivalist is actually a sign of strength to a spiritual warrior who longs to be authentic at all costs.
Jeff Brown
#76. It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#77. The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.
Donald Berwick
#79. If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
Maria Bartiromo
#80. Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
Cass Sunstein
#81. It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors.
Paul Gillmor
#82. ...to avoid huge medical costs, I strongly urge you not to get sick.
Marietta Rodgers
#83. Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
Jack Kerouac
#84. The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end ... we are much more strategic about how we source now.
Jason Kennedy
#85. Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge
Phil Harding
#86. It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always
appreciated.
Douglas Adams
#87. A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.
Emmet Fox
#88. information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.
Barry Schwartz
#90. Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
#91. Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.
Jim Ratcliffe
#92. The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
#93. Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.
Karen Salmansohn
#94. Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune.
Steve Truglia
#95. Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.
Charles R. Swindoll
#96. Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.
Thomas Carper
#97. The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.
Jonah Goldberg
#98. Maybe that's the mark of a real leader. Admitting a mistake has been made and finding a way to stop it at all costs.
Joelle Charbonneau
#99. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
Dolly Parton
#100. I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.
Gil Garcetti
